Reed Hastings Quotes

I don't understand indie films. So, I won't do such films.

I always went to see independent films, they're the movies I'm usually most excited to see.

I love indie movies. I think that independent cinema is where it's at and where a lot of trends begin. It's where new filmmakers are breaking through.

I like independent movies, documentaries. There's not a lot of movies that are commercially made that I dig.

I do sort of gravitate towards smaller, indie-type movies.

Hollywood... that's not going to be my niche at all. If anyone is going wants to work with me, I would think it's going to be independent films. I'm not 22!

I really like Larry Clark's films, as weird as that is. I like Richard Kern films.

'Five Easy Pieces,' 'Easy Rider' - those are indie pictures; those were not studio pictures. They had relationships with studio distribution, but they were indies.

I grew up thinking there was something called 'independent film,' which I wouldn't necessarily have had access to if there wasn't Sundance.

I think it's important to do smaller films because I think that's where a lot of new things are happening.

I've done a lot of independent films that not a lot of people have seen.

The quality of mainstream cinema has changed. A lot of independent voices feel they can leave everything behind and make independent films.

They seem much rarer now, those auteur films that come out of a director's imagination and are elliptical and hermetic. All those films that got me into independent cinema when I was watching it seem thin on the ground.

I've done so many independents for so many years. Leads that nobody's seen.

The films that I really liked and the ones that really blew my mind when I was younger were independent films. They're like great records to me.

In the early '90s when the American independent movie started, it held personal vision as a premium. That was brilliant timing.

The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.

I personally like to do independent films.

I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a big, huge tentpole movie, or if it wasn't on the radio, I hadn't experienced it.

When I started out in independent films in the early '70s, we did everything for the love of art. It wasn't about money and stardom. That was what we were reacting against. You'd die before you'd be bought.

It seems that the small movies are a little more risky and cutting-edge. You've got your big commerce and you've got your small films that you're more passionate about.

Indie film isn't dead, it just grew up.

You know, independent films have been institutionalized, practically. Every studio has got a boutique arthouse label.

I love independent filmmaking. I don't agree with a lot of it, but that's the point.

I tend to watch a lot of lower-budget movies to find out what's doing down there and find out who's coming up.